92. Replenish power (4)
The flesh of Cassandra, torn into countless pieces and contaminating the entire room, began to wriggle and clump together, gradually forming a human form. Elia slightly frowned at the disgusting scene that made her vomit.
It’s a scene where she would have fainted from surprise if a normal person, but Elia, who knows Cassandra’s secret about her body, didn’t change much except revealing her displeasure. Besides, this wasn’t the first time I’d seen her.
Time passed, and Cassandra took shape again, showing a embarrassed smile.
“Isn’t the greeting a bit harsh?”
In the first place, an opponent you can’t reach with your own strength. Cassandra killed her temper and tried to talk somehow.
Her heart doesn’t exist here, so those who don’t know her location couldn’t kill her. However, she couldn’t adapt to the sensation of dying and coming back to life no matter how many times she experienced it.
Elia casually sat down on the bed and opened her mouth.
“Does it look like I came to have a leisurely conversation with you?”
Definitely.
If you’re a person who came to talk, you wouldn’t start by killing them without questioning and answering.
A cold sweat broke out on Cassandra’s face before she knew it. Now, Cassandra was looking so uncharacteristic of her that anyone who knew anything about her character would doubt her eyes if they saw this sight. She always reigned over others, and Cassandra, who seemed to see insects, felt like a mere insect in front of a great being.
“So? You know that revenge doesn’t mean anything to me anyway, right?”
The source of her confidence is immortality.
Although Elia possesses overwhelming destructive power, if she cannot get rid of that source, Cassandra will be resurrected countless times. That was the reason Cassandra, being human, could say whatever she wanted to say even in front of her Elia.
“Really? Is there really no meaning?”
Elia spread her palms with a mean, mean smile that overshadowed Cassandra’s confidence.
There was nothing on her palm, but soon the space began to shudder and something the size of a small ball appeared.
Something beautiful covered with jewels was wriggling at regular intervals, and it looked like it was alive.
Looking at the jewel, Cassandra asked Elia, her eyes widening in disbelief.
“You… Where the hell!”
Cassandra, who hadn’t shown much agitation until now, showed her emotions fluctuating for the first time.
Moreover, Cassandra, who hadn’t even thought about messing with Elia, got up from her seat and even tried to snatch the jewel from Elia’s hand.
Elia held her jewel in her hand as if she was telling her not to come any closer, and each time Cassandra would stop her hand with a puzzled look on her face.
Elia rolled her jewel in the palm of her hand as if handling her toy, she said with a smile.
“A normal human would never be able to find it. I never thought he would have hidden his heart in the realm of the gods. It’s pretty great for bugs, isn’t it?”
Cassandra sat down on her floor with a look of despair.
Now, even the source of her confidence has been taken away by the gods.
She can’t be as cocky as before, and from now on she has to be careful with every word she says.
If she didn’t, everything she built up to this point could collapse.
Cassandra bowed her head before her Elia and opened her mouth in her servile voice.
“Sorry… All the while, I was being arrogant without even knowing the subject.”
Elia said in a playful tone as she stepped on Cassandra’s head as she lay flat on the floor.
“Huh? How will we do it? You seem a little insincere?”
Your last name?
Cassandra had never asked for forgiveness from anyone in her life.
All those who went against their feelings were forced to submit by force. There was no way she knew how to properly apologize.
Elia kicked Cassandra in the head, then she stepped on the hem of her dress.
“Isn’t the attire a bit cumbersome to apologize?”
I wasn’t so stupid that I didn’t know what those words meant.
Cassandra sat down on her knees before she knew it and began to undress her clothes one by one with her trembling fingers.
Cassandra took off her underwear, which was covering the last part of her body, and bowed her head to the floor again, revealing her jade-white skin.
Who would have guessed?
The day will come when she takes the position of her mage’s lord and asks her forgiveness in her nakedness.
“Yes. It’s nice to see you now.”
Cassandra kept her silence for a long time, watching Elia’s eyes before finally opening her mouth.
“Well then, now the heart….”
“No, not yet.”
The moment she saw the light of hope, she felt as if she was falling into the abyss of despair again.
What I saw in Cassandra’s eyes was an endless despair. That was all.
Her own heart went into her unpredictable crazy bitch, and she felt so bleak.
Elia grabbed Cassandra by the hair, put her back on her feet, and pointed at her on the stairs.
“You are not asking for an apology from me.”
Where Cassandra cast her gaze, Ain, the only being who could control this crazy elf, was standing there.
At that moment, many thoughts popped into Cassandra’s head.
However, to Ain?
Seeking her apology to Ain, who looked down on her so much, as she did to Elia now, was more humiliating to her than her death.
She knew it too.
The energy I felt from Ain was not the same as before.
She felt the power of the elves at that time. That power was what Cassandra longed for and was the key to unlocking all her magical secrets.
But that kind of power to such an insignificant porter? You chose such an insignificant human being instead of me? Why?
She couldn’t understand, and didn’t want to understand. Denying her reality was the only thing she could do.
But the reality was cruel.
The child Cassandra used to ignore has now become something she can look up to, and she has to accept the fact that her life is also in her hands.
Cassandra bit her teeth with her last pride and glared at her child.
“Cut your eyes.”
Ain’s low words contained a different coldness than before.
Moreover, I felt an irresistible force.
Cassandra, before feeling resentful, trembled at her son’s words and looked down at her.
Ain sat down on Cassandra’s back as a chair and continued her words.
“Cassandra, everything you did annoyed me, but there is one thing I am grateful for.”
Cassandra didn’t say anything, she just listened to her child.
“If it hadn’t been for you, I would have died not knowing who she really was or realizing her most important truth.”
Cassandra, who had maintained her silence the whole time, reacted to her words.
“Reality? Ah… After all, did you know?”
“Yes, and from now on is important.”
Ain stood up from her seat, stepped on Cassandra’s head, and spoke in a cold tone.
“You obviously just said you too. Did Leon know this fact from the beginning?”
Cassandra was silent for a moment, then she started laughing maniacally.
“You are right. Leon knew long ago that Maria was a disgusting hypocrite. However, not from the beginning. It’s something I learned during my adventure.”
Ain thought as he retraced her memories one by one.
Evidently, even at the beginning of the adventure, Leon showed the same friendly side to Mariana Ain as before. He did occasionally say harsh words, but that was his personality carried over from his days in nursery school.
The closer he gets to the castle, the darker his personality becomes, and he treats subhumans and shows difficulty with Maria.
‘Since when….’
Ain shook her head and clenched her fist.
‘No, it doesn’t matter anymore.’
In the end, isn’t Leon also involved in this situation?
Indeed, if he had been truly for his friend he would have revealed the truth. Leon may have his own position, but Ain couldn’t understand Leon’s attitude towards him in the worst way.
Cassandra hinted at him.
“So what are you going to do? Do you want me to kill Leon?”
Ain would have understood if I had only said that and finished.
However, Cassandra has crossed her line.
“That makes no sense. You can only bring peace to this country by sacrificing one human, right? Leon knows that too, so he doesn’t bother subjugating the demon lord.”
It was a word that I could say because I did not know the details, but it was a word that should never be said in front of Ajin.
Ain’s eyebrows twitched upward, and he grabbed Cassandra’s heart from Elia’s hand as if snatching it away.
“Cassandra, she always wanted to say something.”
Surprised Cassandra, before she could say anything, Ain put force into her hand and burst Cassandra’s heart.
Looking at Cassandra who collapsed on the floor like a doll whose strings had been cut, Ain pressed his temples in disgust.
“Please keep your mouth shut.”